The course starts at the beginning, and teaches a practical, hands-on approach to business innovation explaining clearly, what it is, and how to go about pursuing it within a business enterprise. It also presents a number of key concepts relating to Innovation Management – the work that Innovation Project Leaders and Program Leaders do within the business to help drive and sustain a program of ongoing innovation therein. When finished, participants should walk away knowing exactly how to pursue and drive new innovation within their business, so that the business can produce a large number of new innovation outputs – and so that you can have the fun of defining, developing, and launching those innovations!

-          The Innovation Professional – World Changers of the Business World. -          The Innovation Fundamentals – Getting to know Business Innovation. -          Innovation’s Design Outputs – The Many Forms of “What’s New” -          The Effective Innovator – Einstein, Edison,  Jobs, and You -          Creativity, Ideation, & Brainstorming – Tapping Into Innovation’s Source of Life. -          The GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method. -          Getting Innovation Done – Running Innovation’s Source of Life. -          Running the Front End of Innovation -          Running the Mid Zone of Innovation -          Running the Back End of Innovation. -          The Big Dig – The Role of Research in Innovation -          Core Concepts in Research -          Problem / Solution Research -          Forward-Looking Research Methods. -          “Hard” Research -          Developing the Insight Plan -          Design Thinking, Human-Centric Design, & The Role of Design in Innovation. -          The Innovation Manager – Grand Masters of the New -          The Innovation Manager as Project Leader – Driving Focused Innovation -          Leading & Building a Core Innovation Team -          The Innovation Management Process -          Program & Project Management Tools for Innovation Management -          Engagement – The Art of Participatory Innovation -          Designing Innovation Spaces -          The Innovation Manager as Liason – Leveraging Open Innovation -          Storytelling – How to Spark the Imagination & Turn Ships -          Selecting the Winning Ideas – My Innovation is Better Than Your Innovation -          Integration – Putting it All Together

- Front Line Staff and Middle Managers in Strategy, Innovation, Marketing, and Research and Development (R&D)